Canute - Fowey Harbour

Name of Vessel
in Fowey
Previous Names
Year Built
Builders
Engines
1931
Dimensions
Owners Built for
Official
Number
St. Canute
SCT KNUD
Othonia
G.R.T.
154
Frederikshavn Shipyard and Floating Dock A/S,
no 192 Denmark
Length
83’6”
500 I.H.P. 125 RPM Helsingør
Iornship- and Machinfactory.
Triple expansion engine.
Helsingør boiler, type "Skotch"
H380x 3400
History Before Coming to Fowey
Owners in Fowey
Notes
Renamed Stockvik
Year
1961
1999
2000
Beam
24’7”
Bollard pull
Odense Harbour
Draft
12’6”
7.2 T
Worked for Odense
Harbour
Fowey Harbour
Commissioners
Holland
Stocka, Sweden

Ordered by Odense Harbour on the 6 June 1930 as a combined
Icebreaker and Harbour Tug. Her keel was laid on the 15 August
1930, launched and named on the 5 November. When Sct. knud was
build she was equipped with a very big and nice salon made from
mahogany, and was meant for meetings held by the port authorities.
The ship was registered to take up to 72 passengers.
Sct. knud was finished at the shipyard on 9 January 1931 and sailed
directly to Odense after a maiden voyage with Captain F. Nielsen in
command. She served almost 29 years on Odense canal and
harbour. Sct. Knud was sold in December 1959 to iron dealer
H.E.Hansen in Odense, who resold her to Fowey Harbour
Commissioners in 1961. Renamed Canute she spent the following 7
years towing clay ships in Fowey Harbour under the Command of
Fletcher Hunkin. She also made voyage moving the Commissioners
dredger Tregeagle around the Coast.
In 1968 having purchased the Gribbin head the Commissioners sold
Canute to the Exeter Maritime Museum charity, I.S.C.A. as the cost of
maintaining the boilers was too big. Also keeping steam available
against diesel immediate power. Canute partook in a towing match
between steam and diesel power organised before the board of the
Commissioners. Steam lost and diesel tugs took over the port
operation.
Canute was open to the public for nearly 30 years in the Exeter canal
basin.
In May of 1999 the ship sailed from England to Terneuzen in Holland
they made a few reparations, among other they changed all the thin
pipes in the boiler, 124 pieces (pipes). Late that year the ship sailed
to Amsterdam for the winter. In April 2000, they continued the voyage
to Stocka, with a stop in Svendborg in Denmark where she arrived on
the 25 of April at 0900 am. Here the ship was for a couple of weeks,
were it was possible to enter the ship and have a look around, before
she continued to Stockholm. On the 28 of July S/S Stockvik sailed
from Stockholm with course for Stocka where it arrived on 1 August
2000.

Canute steaming up the
lower Harbour
.
PICTURES
SCT KNUD shortly after
arriving in Fowey. As she
was not used for pushing
bow fender was removed
along with derrick
SKN KNUD not long
after entering
service

On her mooring in The Lower harbour

As Committee ship for regatta week anchored off the harbour mouth
Steaming from Mixtow Reach into Lew Roads

Plans of St. Canute

Towing a ship in the Lower harbour
St. Canute Turning the Pintp in the swing ground

Open to the public at Exeter Maritime Museum
In the Canal Denmark en route to her
new home in Sweden

As the S/S Stockvik on arrival in
Sweden

Showing the size of the propeller and rudder